The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

St Giles CofE Primary School

URN 123503 · Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Shropshire

Portland Crescent, Shrewsbury, SY2 5NJ

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 46 families named St Giles CofE Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 45 offers.

That is 1.02 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 77% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 77% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.67 in 2021–2022 and 0.95 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 46 127 45 1.02
2024 33 89 38 0.87
2023 39 112 45 0.87
2022 24 87 35 0.69
2021 27 82 41 0.66
2020 44 106 45 0.98
2019 51 139 45 1.13
2018 47 89 44 1.07
2017 45 119 45 1.00
2016 64 134 45 1.42
2015 46 121 46 1.00
2014 52 123 46 1.13

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 18 October 2023

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 42.0% 0.0% 105.0 102.0
2023/24 53.0% 7.0% 106.0 104.0
2022/23 67.0% 13.0% 108.0 104.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 13.4 13.0 0.0 0.4 3.0%
2023/24 13.8 13.6 0.0 0.2 1.4%
2022/23 13.1 12.1 0.0 1.0 7.6%
2021/22 13.0 10.4 1.0 1.6 20.0%
2020/21 13.2 11.2 0.0 2.0 15.2%
2019/20 13.4 12.4 1.0 0.0 7.5%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Shropshire publishes an admission zone for this school (St. Giles' CE Primary School, Shrewsbury).

Covers: 141 live postcodes across 1.331 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Shrewsbury School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

11 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Shared with: Shrewsbury School. The council publishes one area for these schools together, so the same streets belong to all of them.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for St Giles CofE Primary School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from St Giles CofE Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.